A Plague of New Ideas: How Change Infects Us
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference , by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown and Company, 279 pages, $24.95. Malcolm Gladwell is a David Macaulay of ideas. He won't tell you how...
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John Adams: Party of One, by James Grant. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 544 pages, $30. Any biography of John Adams that works anxiety, insecurity, worry and dread into its first paragraph is off on the...
View ArticleWho Killed Feminism? Let’s Blame Mommy
Many years ago, in the course of an otherwise high-minded conversation, a very wise, very distinguished publisher imparted what she billed as an unassailable truth: “Marriages,” she announced, “are...
View ArticleWho Killed Feminism? Let’s Blame Mommy
Many years ago, in the course of an otherwise high-minded conversation, a very wise, very distinguished publisher imparted what she billed as an unassailable truth: “Marriages,” she announced, “are...
View ArticleMiracle Makeovers: Nip-and-Tuck Unpacked
A few years ago, I spent an afternoon on the Upper East Side with a keen-eyed Frenchman during his maiden trip to New York. There were marvels aplenty, but at the end of the day he had developed a...
View ArticleMiracle Makeovers: Nip-and-Tuck Unpacked
A few years ago, I spent an afternoon on the Upper East Side with a keen-eyed Frenchman during his maiden trip to New York. There were marvels aplenty, but at the end of the day he had developed a...
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